First 15 min here !

i don't mind big scale movies like lord of the rings or star wars (OT) but they have to still convey some sort of grand scheme of things, this seems like they just added alot of big scale action to a small scale movie abit like the fast and furious and transformer series where it started of grounded story as much as it can be and they just kept taking it bigger and bigger for no reason apart from making it look cooler and this seems the same, it seems style or substance and Synder is definitely once of those type of directors.

I agree smart zombie just stops becoming a zombie when it cares about other things then just lusting after food.

I've already seen Army of the Dead in theaters. It is a terrifically fun and exciting movie that I highly recommend if you're a fan of Zack Snyder or the zombie genre. It's got a lot of great action and tension, excellent gore and make-up effects, an overall excellent cast, and great deal of really fascinating world-building. I thought the zombie civilization was one of the film's most intriguing plot elements. But they still have the mindless zombies in addition to the smart ones, so I thought the film delivered the best of both worlds in that regard.

I saw in the cast list that Richard Cetrone plays the zombie king Zeus in this film, and I thought he did a terrific job, one of the most memorable horror villains in a long time. I was wondering why his name looked so familiar and saw that he played the lead Martian ghost (or whatever they were) in Ghosts of Mars and thought he was terrible in that film. He really redeemed himself here!

I did have a few issues. The father-daughter bond between Dave Bautista and Ella Purnell just didn't fully work for me. I thought Bautista was excellent in the film, but Purnell was the weak link of the cast. Snyder also introduces a new kind of zombie in one of the last battle scenes that was a bit of a WTF moment for me. It's so brief and not given any explanation that I think it should have been cut out or reserved for the inevitable sequel. The final scenes were entertaining, but definitely stretched my suspension of disbelief. I'm also uncertain as to what happened to one particular character, whose fate appeared to occur off screen.

As far as how this compares to Snyder's Dawn of the Dead? To me, the DOTD remake actually my favorite zombie film so Army of the Dead is not quite as good, but it's still fairly close and does now rank among my favorite zombie films (off the top of my head, it's somewhere in my top 10). I definitely can't wait to re-watch it again on Netflix. It's an 8.5 out of 10 for me.